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Oriental Orange banded Green Geometer moth

Eucyclodes gavissima, Walker, 1861

Description:

The pattern of white zig-zag fasciae and, more distally, spots on bright green, with blackish suffusion at the costa round the forewing postmedial is distinctive.

Habitat:

The species is rare. Two specimens were taken at 300m in the mixed dipterocarp forest of Ulu Temburong, Brunei. (@Moths of Borneo) This photo is taken at 1305 m in the Mixed Broadleaf Tropical forest of Tsirang, Bhutan on 23rd July, 2012 by me.

Notes:

Geometridae, Geometrinae, Eucyclodes gavissima Walker comb. n. Spotting for NMW 2012

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42 Comments (1–25)

James McNair
James McNair 9 years ago

Wow

KarenL
KarenL 10 years ago

Congrats Jatishwor, your moth is featured in the Project Noah blog! http://blog.projectnoah.org/post/5623943...

honeydogleo
honeydogleo 10 years ago

Amazing colors

injica
injica 11 years ago

What a kitchy moth :)

Adarsha B S
Adarsha B S 11 years ago

Interesting n very beautiful!

Dipika Kalaria
Dipika Kalaria 11 years ago

wonderful moth..

Thanks Karel L and Ashish for ur complements and update.

Hanno Shalaby
Hanno Shalaby 11 years ago

fantastic !!

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 11 years ago

Jatishwor... please update ID
Common ID- Oriental Orange banded Green Geometer moth.

KarenL
KarenL 11 years ago

A great Spotting of the Day! This moth looks like an inspiration for a Missoni print! Congrats Irungbam!

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 11 years ago

Congrats Jatishwor for honor of SOTD in Moth week...!!

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 11 years ago

Congratulations Irungbam !

LarryGraziano
LarryGraziano 11 years ago

Congrats! A truly wonderful spotting!!!

NathanO'Dea
NathanO'Dea 11 years ago

WOW

Thanks to all for complement.

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 11 years ago

Congratulations on SOTD and all your beautiful Bhutan spottings Jatishwor!

surekha
surekha 11 years ago

Absolutely beautiful! Congrats!

Azura Firdaus W
Azura Firdaus W 11 years ago

Congratulations

Sachin Zaveri
Sachin Zaveri 11 years ago

Congratulations!

Atul
Atul 11 years ago

wow superb ! and congrats for SOTD!

TishannePatterson
TishannePatterson 11 years ago

Stunning moth,wonderful sighting and share. Thank you!

PapoBestard
PapoBestard 11 years ago

Congrats! Beautiful pics!

NuwanChathuranga
NuwanChathuranga 11 years ago

Congratulations!

Thanks the Project Noah team for the honor ans selecting my spotting as Spotting of the day..

LuisStevens
LuisStevens 11 years ago

Amazing!

Tsirang, Bhutan

Spotted on Jul 23, 2012
Submitted on Jul 24, 2012

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